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Shoham Smith

שהם סמיט

Shoham Smith was born in Jerusalem in 1966 and currently lives in Tel Aviv. Smith studied industrial design at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and literature at Tel Aviv University. She writes book reviews and is a translator. Smith has published collections of short stories and a number of children’s books. She received the Prime Minister’s Prize (2009), the ACUM Award for Furthering the Publication of Children’s Books twice (2011; 2015), the Devorah Omer Prize for A Treasury of Hebrew Legends for Children (2014) and the Lea Goldberg Prize for My Aunt Lea Goldberg (2017).

Photo by: Moti Kikayon

The Books

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  • Who Invented School Anyway?

    [Mi Bichlal Himtzi et Beit Ha-Sefer?]
    Children
    Kinneret, Zmora-Bitan 2019

  • The brides’ dressess [with Eitan Eloa]

    Children
    2018

  • Sand Dunes Child: Six Stories in the Footsteps of S. Yizhar

    [Yeled Cholot: Shisha Sipurim Be-Ikvot S. Yizhar]
    Children Youth
    Hakibbutz Hameuchad 2017

  • My Aunt Lea Goldberg

    [Doda Lea: Me'et Shumish]
    Children
    Kinneret 2016

  • The Legend of Kamtza and Bar-Kamtza

    [Agadat Kamtza U-Var-Kamtza]
    Children Picture book
    Kinneret 2016

  • Avera: The Journey to Painting

    [Avela: Ha-Masa El Ha-Tziyur]
    Children Picture book
    2016

  • Yakinton: A Story about Friendship and Song

    [Yakinton: Sipur Al Chaverut Ve-Shir]
    Children
    Kinneret 2015

  • Six Great Cunning Stories from World Mythology

    [Shesh Tachbulot Gdolot Ba-Mitologyot Shel Amei Ha-Olam]
    Children
    Kinneret 2015

  • The Legend of Astrid

    [Agadat Astrid: Sipura Shel Astrid Lindgren]
    Children
    Zeltner 2015

  • An After Bedtime Story

    [Sipur Acharei Ha-Sheina]
    Children Picture book
    Kinneret 2014

  • The Fox and the Grapes

    [Mashal Al Shual]
    Children Picture book
    Kinneret 2014

  • Signs in the Well

    [Ot Ba-Be'er: Al Pi Agadat Chazal]
    Children Picture book
    Kinneret 2013

  • City Boy

    [Yeled Ir]
    Children
    Kinneret 2012

  • A Treasury of Hebrew Legends for Children

    [Ha-Agadot Shelanu: Otzar Ha-Agada Ha-Ivrit Li-Yeladim]
    Children
    Dvir 2011

  • Porridge for Daddy

    [Aba Achal Daysa]
    Children Picture book
    Kinneret 2010

  • A Day in Jerusalem

    [Yomtiyul Yerushalayim]
    Children Picture book
    Anonima 2008

  • Six Great Heroines: From World Mythology

    [Shesh Giborot Gdolot Ba-Mitologyot Shel Amei Ha-Olam]
    Children
    Kinneret 2008

  • Mythological Monsters from Ancient Greece

    [Miflatzot Mitologiyot Shel Yavan Ha-Atika]
    Children Picture book
    Anonima 2007

  • Six Great Heroes: From World Mythology

    [Shisha Giborim Gdolim: Ba-Mitologyot Shel Amei Ha-Olam]
    Children
    Kinneret 2006

  • Who Drank My Juice? [with Rutu Modan]

    Children
    Sifriat Poalim 2004

  • HomeCenter

    [HomeCenter]
    Fiction Stories
    Yedioth Ahronoth 2002

  • Take Away

    [Take Away]
    Fiction Stories
    Zmora-Bitan 2002

  • Gombotz and Karchibachi

    [Gombotz Ve-Karchibachi]
    Children Picture book
    Zmora-Bitan 2001

  • A Nuisance Moon

    [Yareʹach Nudnik]
    Children Picture book
    Tamuz 1999

  • Quick Land

    [Eretz Tik-Tak]
    Children Picture book
    Keter 1997

  • Things that My Heart Fails to Tell

    [Libi Omer Li She-Zichroni Boged Bi]
    Fiction
    Keter 1996

  • The Book of Legends